AuthorTopic: Retro time! (Read 9448 times)

So, I almost never buy games when they first come out. I wait for quite a while before I play some things. It's better for my wallet that way and the games are just as fun. Recently I just did my first playthrough of Portal. I absolutely loved it. What old(er) games are doing it for you people?

ADDENDUM: Since this came up -- We're going to consider "retro" to be anything that falls outside of the last 5-7 years. mostly because of how the industry moves and saturates.

« Last Edit: 09 May 2013, 16:40 by ForteBass »

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Man, Friday night and I'm drawing tacos to post on the internet. I need another drink.

I'm trying to play Total Annihilation lately because I never got to play it when it was popular, but I just can't get into it. I guess I'm just not into RTS games anymore, even though Planetary Annihilation looks like it'll be a great game, so maybe it'll be different for me.

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When heaven's in the music, Hell is in control.The Angels got the phonebox but the Devil's got the rock and roll.

I keep telling myself not to buy any more new games so that when I get money I can buy Planescape: Torment, System Shock 2 or Thief, buuuut then something like Bioshock Infinite comes along, so it's taking a while.

And if Portal is now considered retro, I must already be old. ¬_¬

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I just got the image of a midwife and a woman giving birth swinging towards each other on a trapeze - when they meet, the midwife pulls the baby out. The knife juggler is standing on the floor and cuts the umbilical cord with a a knifethrow.

I keep telling myself not to buy any more new games so that when I get money I can buy Planescape: Torment, System Shock 2 or Thief, buuuut then something like Bioshock Infinite comes along, so it's taking a while.

And if Portal is now considered retro, I must already be old. ¬_¬

The really messed up thing is that if Half Life 2 ep 3 ever DOES come out it'll already be retro before its release.

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When heaven's in the music, Hell is in control.The Angels got the phonebox but the Devil's got the rock and roll.

I need to replay some of my beloved Game Cube RPGs this summer, Tales of Symphonia and Skies of Arcadia Legends rate at least one more replay, also need to replay some Zelda...

Define classics I suppose?

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I built the walls that make my life a prison, I built them all and cannot be forgiven... ...Sold my soul to carry your vendetta, So let me go before you can regret it, You've made your choice and now it's come to this, But that's price you pay when you're a monster with no name.

I just got the image of a midwife and a woman giving birth swinging towards each other on a trapeze - when they meet, the midwife pulls the baby out. The knife juggler is standing on the floor and cuts the umbilical cord with a a knifethrow.

Big Bang: Sonic on acid, with teddy bears instead of rings, and without any attacks (or going high speed at all).Cycloids: A clown on a unicycle avoiding flying pig-elephant things.DinoSaw: A caveman attacking dinosaurs and such with a chainsaw.Hamsters: An alien thing squishing various furry animals with a hammer.

Robin Legend of Sherwood - or something like that anyway - and a bit of Pikmin. I might actually get to play that more now that I've got some of my "sensible adult" stuff out of the way. It's been sat on my shelf for...3 months now?

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Piglet wondered how it was that every conversation with Eeyore seemed to go wrong.

...which is not on GOG. Just on Steam. Also on my to-play-eventually list.

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I just got the image of a midwife and a woman giving birth swinging towards each other on a trapeze - when they meet, the midwife pulls the baby out. The knife juggler is standing on the floor and cuts the umbilical cord with a a knifethrow.

watching farfromsubtle play earthbound. it looks fantastic! can't believe I didnt play this as a kid. Kind of want to play it.

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You see, there are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. Indeed that's what we provide in our own modest, humble, insignificant... oh, fuck it. - M. Gustave

wow. aparently one of the first guys you meet in earthbound is this guy

he even takes you to his basement in his crummy house. he's a totally creepy dude too. WTF!?

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You see, there are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. Indeed that's what we provide in our own modest, humble, insignificant... oh, fuck it. - M. Gustave

Dude.. Sanitarium was a *fucked up* game.. or possibly because I was playing it when I was like 13.. I still remember bits in the intro where there was some guy just muttering something beating his head on a bloodstained patch of wall. Shortly after there was a guy which looked like he was peeing off the edge of a cliff.. you get near him and he freaks out and jumps off.

On the subject of retro.. you can't go wrong with DOSBox and anything Apogee released (or is that too retro?)Audiosurf is pretty fun.. especially with Savlonic songs (look them up on youtube )Black Mesa is a free game that's a re-imagining of the original Half-Life (Gets you up to before you go to XEN, they are making that part a whole game ) Although it's not related to the Operation: Black Mesa, which is essentially the same type of thing but with the Opposing Force game

I keep going back to Unreal Tournament, mainly to play the Unreal Coop mod (lets you go through Unreal with friends and a ton more enemies.. I recommend checking it out )

This is not entirely retro.. but there is a game on Steam called "Antichamber" which is a pretty awesome mind-fuck Personally, I've been going back and playing Red Faction: Guerilla to try to finish it.

If you need any other ideas of games, let me know.. it's basically all I did my entire childhood.. and still do to this day.

So I bought the Tomb Raider pack during the Steam sale (why not? all 10 games for like $18). I load up the first game and after mapping the keys to my preference, I notice that they're all used by my left hand (I set them up according to my Skyrim layout). Of the first five TR games (I stopped at 6 because of how glitchy it was), the first was the one I played the most, being able to do a complete run getting all items, secrets and kills in a few hours.

Playing that game now, after having not played it for at least 10 years is just weird. No using the mouse, having to manually activate the Look function, no repositioning the camera, long jumps have to be set up, auto-aiming, can't just press the Fire button to draw your weapons...at least you can save whenever you want now though.

Sanitarium is *great* (at least the first half), and Mother and her situation is one of the best creep-outs from games of that time I ever saw. The themes and ideas in that act had a surprisingly large impact on my writing and storytelling projects over the years.

Some old games hold up incredibly well because they made the most of their limited animation. Theme Hospital and Windwaker for example, both have highly cartoonish graphics that make no effort whatsoever to seem realistic and so their animation still looks great now.

What does qualify is the latest Humble Weekly offer on retro shooters. (So what if I already posted it!) I think Duke Nukem 3D was the last (good) Duke Nukem game but I haven't played any of them, so I might give it a shot to see what it's all about.

I just got the image of a midwife and a woman giving birth swinging towards each other on a trapeze - when they meet, the midwife pulls the baby out. The knife juggler is standing on the floor and cuts the umbilical cord with a a knifethrow.

It's an IBM RS/6000 desktop workstation, with a P/390 card set (2 cards that add a mainframe CPU and 128 MiB of RAM). The R/390 mention is referring to IBM's name for an RS/6000 with a P/390 installed.

Running VM/ESA (one of the IBM mainframe OSes, dates back to the 1960s, and yes, VM means virtual machine, and yes, it means the same thing as it does in PC-land - VM basically gives every user a VM of their own, running a special-purpose stripped down OS called CMS, and all services get VMs of their own, and any other IBM mainframe OS can run within a VM as well), which is the OS that this card set was primarily designed for (but not IBM's flagship mainframe OS - that is the MVS (means Multiple Virtual Storage, but it's so obtuse that many call it Man Vs. System), OS/390, z/OS lineage).

No, there is no reason to run this hardware - emulation is easier to set up, and is far faster. And, no reason to play with mainframe hardware, either, but hey.

It was IBM's deep experience of VMs that enabled them to make the DOS and Windows boxes in OS/2 v2+ genuinely as advertised: "a better DOS than DOS" and "a better Windows than Windows".

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"Being human, having your health; that's what's important."(from: Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi )"As long as we're all living, and as long as we're all having fun, that should do it, right?"(from: The Eccentric Family )

The Wikipedia article sums the game up thus: The Operative: No One Lives Forever is a story-driven video game, set in the 1960s, and stars spy Cate Archer as the eponymous Operative, who works for UNITY – a secret international organization "dedicated to protecting humanity from megalomaniacs bent upon world domination." During the story of the game, Archer is sent on missions to a number of locales, including Morocco, East and West Germany, the Caribbean, and the Alps, where she gets into intense situations, such as scuba diving a shipwreck, free-falling from an airplane without a parachute, and exploring a space station in outer space, all the while fighting armed villains.

And it has an adaptive soundtrack, which is something I love in video games.

And some games looked good for their time, and despite the graphics not holding up very well today, the gameplay mechanics are bang-on perfect.

(UT99 and UT2004 come to mind.)

I fixed it for you. Also.. I still play UT'99... that game is awesome for all the mods that are out for it and neat maps. I've played through Unreal using UT'99 map packs and mods about 10 times already.

I think Duke Nukem 3D was the last (good) Duke Nukem game but I haven't played any of them, so I might give it a shot to see what it's all about.

I still liked the recent ones too.. Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project was pretty cool; it was like Duke Nukem 3D + Duke Nukem 2 in that weird 2.5D. The gameplay was pretty awesome and the music was nice too. Duke Nukem Forever was still lots of fun, I can't understand all the hate it gets. You can't go into something like that with high hopes given it's... history. Granted, the loading times were a bit long.. but the game itself was still fun. I miss games like those where it's just "Hey.. kill these things.. that's it" and not a movie crammed into your face ever level/chapter of these military shooters.